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Re: Brandon Konkle | Provisioning a new Ubuntu server for Django

Jamie Forrest — Sat, 05 May 2012 22:31:45 -0000

Thanks for this post. It's been very useful for me. One note, however, is that if you deploy the code with a folder in the path called /code, as you describe above, and you try to run Django's manage.py shell, you will get an error due to a conflicting Python library called 'code' that the shell uses. I now keep my deployed code in a /sites/mydomain.com/src directory, and that enables me to use the Django shell in that environment.

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Paul Brian — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:21:23 -0000

A nice tutorial, thank you.

As an aside, and you may have fixed it by now, I would be reluctant to use the if...check in nginx -> it notoriously slows down nginx, especially as you are doing a I/O check and an if statement on every request.

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Brandon Konkle — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:56:44 -0000

Unfortunately, I've been away from this too long to remember. I'd suggest looking at the Postgres documentation. It's a little difficult to find what you're looking for sometimes, but there's a wealth of great information there.

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Un33kvu — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:52:53 -0000

What happens when Master goes for a reboot and Hot Standby becomes the new master. Would the old Master become the new Hot Standby automatically or would it sit and wait for your intervention ?

Re: Brandon Konkle | Our Git Workflow

Jonathan Robson — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:48:13 -0000

Sorry. I didn't see that.

Re: Brandon Konkle | Our Git Workflow

Brandon Konkle — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:20:13 -0000

You're right, squash is better. When I wrote this post, though, I wasn't aware of that option. If you read the italicized note at the top, I suggested using squash instead when I found out about it. :-)

Re: Brandon Konkle | Our Git Workflow

Jonathan Robson — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:04:03 -0000

Why not use "git merge --squash"?

Re: Brandon Konkle | Our Git Workflow

bittersteel — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:06:27 -0000

thank you for this :) we've been looking for something exactly like this, where the master branch isn't cluttered with a large number of commits

Re: Brandon Konkle | Provisioning a new Ubuntu server for Django

Jared Sampson — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:22:59 -0000

Instead of installing PIL globally and then linking to it from the virtualenv site-packages directory manually, another option is `pip install pillow`. It's a packaged version compatible with setuptools, etc.

I found it originally via http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

Re: Creating a Personal PyPi with Chishop

Erik A. — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:11:18 -0000

For some reason, I'm getting a 500 Server Error each time I try to upload a package to my pypi. Any ideas how to debug this?

UPDATE: the URL in .pypirc has to have a trailing slash.

Re: Brandon Konkle | Automated Webfaction DNS Override Updates

Luismanolo — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:31:08 -0000

Very good from Spain..

Many thanks.

Re: Brandon Konkle | Our Git Workflow

shk.schneider — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:57:25 -0000

I was trying to get a branching model like yours.
Thanks for the share!

Re: Brandon Konkle | Dynamically Updating IP Addresses with Update-ip

Joseph Reagle — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:00:33 -0000

Error on install:

urd:~$ pip install update-ipDownloading/unpacking update-ip Downloading update-ip-0.1.tar.gz Running setup.py egg_info for package update-ip Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 14, in <module> File "/home/reagle/build/update-ip/setup.py", line 7, in <module> README = read('README.rst') File "/home/reagle/build/update-ip/setup.py", line 5, in read return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read() IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/reagle/build/update-ip/README.rst' Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 14, in <module> File "/home/reagle/build/update-ip/setup.py", line 7, in <module> README = read('README.rst') File "/home/reagle/build/update-ip/setup.py", line 5, in read return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/reagle/build/update-ip/README.rst'
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Re: Brandon Konkle | Provisioning a new Ubuntu server for Django

Rob Balfre — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:03:40 -0000

supervisord.log is loggin this Error:
Can't find 'code.settings' in your PYTHONPATH.
What am I missing?

Re: Brandon Konkle | Provisioning a new Ubuntu server for Django

Rob Balfre — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:20:55 -0000

Thanks, great article! I'm having a issue starting the app, getting the error:
ImportError: Could not import settings 'code.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named settings. Any ideas?

Re: Brandon Konkle | Our Git Workflow

Vitaly Kozadayev — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:20:44 -0000

Awesome! Thank you

Re: Brandon Konkle | Our Git Workflow

kyanachik — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:54:26 -0000

Thank you for your walk-through and explanation. By far the easiest to follow regarding git rebase and squash.

Re: Brandon Konkle | Provisioning a new Ubuntu server for Django

Buy Facebook Fans — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:14:49 -0000

Thank u for giving us such good article and giving the tips in there I can borrow to improve my automated deployment..

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MaDeuce — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:03:42 -0000

This was extremely helpful; just what I was looking for. Thanks very much for taking the effort to put it out. It would have taken me quite a while to figure it all out on my own.

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Brandon Konkle — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:56:43 -0000

As far as performance, I don't have any solid numbers. I implemented this along with some other improvements, and overall the site I was working on was much better able to handle the load. I'm not sure how much of it can be attributed to which improvement, but my impression was that the read-only slave was an immense help.

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Brandon Konkle — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:53:58 -0000

The log-shipping is a failsafe - if something happens and the streaming connection is interrupted, the changes to the database can be reconstructed with the logs. If the secondary db goes down for some reason, when it starts up it can recover with the logs and then continue streaming.

Re: Brandon Konkle | Provisioning a new Ubuntu server for Django

Brandon Konkle — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:52:32 -0000

It depends on the project. For small projects where it's not critical to have more frequent backups, Rackspace's daily backups are just fine. For some projects, hourly backups with a management command are fine. For others, I've used Postgres's streaming replication with log-shipping as a failsafe - which I've actually done a little blogging about.

Re: Django Dev, Test, and Prod Environments Revisited

un33k — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:08:11 -0000

I use settings.py for commonly "required" stuff.
I use private.py for secret stuff and symlinks into the setting directory of project
settings.py pulls in private.py at the end using a try: import private exempt: pass
I use debug.py which first imports settings.py and then adds/overwrites debug stuff. Same as for production.

I also use django-bootup to auto create sites, install fixtures, create superuser and auto create a profile when a user is created.

It works well for me.

Re: Creating a Personal PyPi with Chishop

un33k — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:07:45 -0000

pip has an option to download but not install and install without downloading or resolving dependancies. It works great.

First pass you download, then install, then run test and if it passes, then package, compress and archive for deployment.

During deployments, zero pypi access is required.

Re: Brandon Konkle | Provisioning a new Ubuntu server for Django

un33k — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:39:22 -0000

Do you use Rackspaces' backup as a way of securing against data-corruption?
I don't see Postgres replication in the instruction set.